I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Politics ruins the character.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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